When administrative access is needed, the user will be prompted for their own password. This means that users do not have to know the root password. Any user which is a member of the wheel group will have the ability to gain administrative access. By default, the only user in this group is the user account that you create during post-installation configuration. If additional users need this ability, use the Groups tab of User Manager to add them to the wheel group.

AppCafe® has been re-designed with a cleaner code base. New features include the ability to perform actions on multiple applications, save downloaded .pbi files to a specified directory, downgrade installed software if an earlier version is available as a PBI, the ability to import and export PBI lists, and improved search ability.

EasyPBI has been revamped as version 2, making it even easier to create PBIs.

The Mount Tray interface and detection algorithm has been improved. It can also mount an ISO to a memory disk.

The Life Preserver utility has been completely rewritten. It allows you to schedule the creation of local ZFS snapshots and provides a built-in browser for finding previous versions of files and restoring them. It includes optional support for replicating the snapshots to a remote system, such as FreeNAS. A remote snapshot can be used to restore the operating system if disaster recovery is required.

Many improvements to Warden® including the ability to create jails by hostname instead of by IP address, jail IP addresses can be changed after jail creation, vimage can be enabled/disabled on a per-jail basis, IPv4 or IPv6 addressing can be enabled or disabled, aliases can be added on a per-jail basis, and jail sysctls can be easily enabled on a per-jail basis.

A Template Manager has been added to Warden®. Templates can be added then used to create a new jail. For example, templates can be used to install different versions of FreeBSD and have been tested from FreeBSD 4.1.1 to FreeBSD-CURRENT.

The ability to use an external DHCP server has been added to Thin Client and the ports collection is no longer a requirement for using this script.

The system uses /etc/rc.conf.pcbsd as the default, desktop operating system version of the RC configuration file. The server operating system version of this file is called /etc/rc.conf.trueos. Do not make any changes to either of these files. Instead, make any needed customizations to /etc/rc.conf. This way, when the system is upgraded, changes to the default configuration file will not affect any settings and overrides which have been placed into /etc/rc.conf.

The default wallpaper has been updated and 9.2 is referred to as PC-BSD® Isotope Infusion to differentiate it from 9.1.

The graphical gsmartcontrol[4] command has been added to PC-BSD® and the command line equivalent smartctl has been added to both PC-BSD® and TrueOS®. These utilities can be used to inspect and test the system's SMART[5]-capable hard drives to determine their health.

Mosh has been added to base to provide an SSH replacement over intermittent links.

VirtualBox[6] has been added to base which should prevent kernel module mis-matches. The installation includes the VirtualBox Guest Additions[7]. If you are currently using the VirtualBox PBI, you should uninstall it.